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Fingal by Ryan Murray is out now on Kindle.
I can't recommend this highly enough.
It's Fionn mac Cumhaill ( Finn McCool ) in a historically accurate setting in prehistory.
You get an amazing story and pages of awesome artwork. I loved it.
I can't recommend this highly enough.
It's Fionn mac Cumhaill ( Finn McCool ) in a historically accurate setting in prehistory.
You get an amazing story and pages of awesome artwork. I loved it.
Anglo-Saxon artefacts at the British Museum in London. Most of them come from the Sutton Hoo burial - including the lyre, the rotating fish mount, and the bird shield mount.
Yesterday I visited the British Museum for the new Stonehenge exhibit of Neolithic and Bronze age artefacts from across Europe. I was recognised by an astonished fan. The exhibition downplays the significance of the invasion of the Beaker folk, but does acknowledge it, without reference to Indo-Europeans or genetic replacements. Some of the artefacts on display date to over 1000 years after the megalith people were replaced and come from places like Denmark, Italy and Germany so the name of the exhibition is rather misleading. STJ viewers will recognise artefacts there which I filmed at their home museums in Dublin, Glasgow, Devizes, Taunton, Lisbon, Copenhagen etc. Pictured here is a gold cup from Cornwall (EBA) which is owned by HM the Queen, and a cup made from Baltic amber found in Hove, Sussex (EBA)
These two items each date to the end of the Bronze age. The pointed helmet comes from Vulci Italy 700's BC and the cuirass is from Marmesse in France (800-900 BC)
This sculpture from Valais in Switzerland dates to around 2500 BC and is associated with the Beaker folk - it resembles similar anthropomorphic stelae of the steppes. It depicts an archer with a bow diagonally across his chest, a belt beneath it and a patterned tunic in the fashion of the time. His arms are resting above his belt. His stylised face looks like he is wearing a helmet with a nose guard, although afaik no such helmets have been found dating to this time.
There are a number of Nordic Bronze age items on loan from Copenhagen which, while utterly unrelated to Stonehenge, are marvellous and this is a great opportunity to see them. This bronze and amber solar disc from Denmark is dated to about 1200 BC and was originally mounted atop a staff. The curators lit it from behind in order to enhance the solar symbolism. I thought that was a nice idea.
Besides the Nebra sky disc on loan from Germany, the exhibition also borrowed two incredible Bronze-age conical golden hats, thought to be calendars; the schifferstadt hat from near Speyer (left) and a French one from Avanton on loan from the Louvre (right). Breathtaking to behold in person.
Those attending PAGAN FUTURES should have received an email with venue location. Please see this post for travel advice. I look forward to meeting you all this evening
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TRAVEL ADVICE FOR THIS WEEKEND
If you are coming to Pagan Futures and are not familiar with London this advice may be of use to you.
There are national rail strikes that disrupt most overground trains going into London on the day of the conference, howeverβ¦
If you are coming to Pagan Futures and are not familiar with London this advice may be of use to you.
There are national rail strikes that disrupt most overground trains going into London on the day of the conference, howeverβ¦